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One of the GOATs for a reason!
I recently got my first bottle of Aventus straight from the official Creed Website. Batch F002426, one of the new ones and I would say a pretty good one. And so far I'm quite happy with the purchase.
Oh and also the packaging and the bottle feel more luxorious and regal to me than all my other perfumes. Even though the packaging material is flimsy and kinda weak. But man the bottle and atomizer are awesome.
Anyway back to the perfume. I really like the smell. It's fresh, sophisticated, layered, smells like quality and has aura. It's kind of a dumb reach but in a very classy, luxurious way.
I love that it's kind of a freshy, a bit fougere, bit blue, but has some depth and heft to it because of the Birch / smokey base. A fresh, a bit fruity and citrusy, kinda mossy / ambergris masterpiece. For me it's layered and complex especially for such a scent profile. And of course the famous pineapple note is truly amazing. All in all a masterpiece, a very successful scent and I love it.
Performance wise my batch is quite alright (if you spray enough) and I am pretty sure it'll get better with maceration.
I used like 10 sprays (yeah maybe a lot considering the excellent creed atomizers which spray like a hose) and had very good projection for maybe like 1-2 hours. It probably became an intimate / skin scent 1-2 hours after that and then it remained a lingering skin scent. Right now around 10 hours later it's still a noticable skin scent on my clothes (I always spray on clothes) which is good enough for me and an average performance in my book. Again as I said I'm pretty sure that'll get still a bit better after some months and years of maceration. All in all I'm okay with the performance.
Regarding the dupes I usually really don't like them and even more so don't respect them.
Club de Nuit Intense Man Limited Edition was okay smell wise after the harsh opening and probably in the air it's not much of a difference and maybe it even gets more compliments because it might have stronger performance. But yeah it's really not the real deal and cannot compare quality or smell wise up close. If that's important to you is up to you. For me it is as I love the quality and the impeccable artistic craftsmanship and mastery of the originals.
Hacivat probably Aventus inspired but quite different actually and also very good in it's own right. But for me not the same DNA as Aventus.
Blockade is a bit like a mockery of the genius of Aventus to me. Yeah it's smells good, it has performance. Yeah it's not a clone but somehow feels like a copy cat. It's kinda trying hard to be cool, trying hard to please, trying hard to chase a hype which is a bit pathetic. Aventus defined, impacted, changed. And Blockade just follows, trying to be edgy and cool and soon enough will be completely forgotten, like all fads.
Cedrat Boise and Intense Cedrat Boise I can respect as they are quite intriguing and good perfumes which kinda do their own thing (if still heavily Aventus inspired). But ultimately they have less quality, they are less of a masterpiece.
Explorer and Eros Energy know how to please, especially for their price. And for what they are, being designer mass pleasing, mass produced products, they are very good. But ultimately they are not Aventus, not at all.
Aventus Cologne and Absolu Aventus are good. But the Mandarine Orange of the cologne did not fit very well into the composition for me, making it also a less inspired copy of the original masterpiece. The absolu is half kind of a different beast altogether and half kind of a shameful imitation of Sauvage Elixir. It is quite an amazing perfume to be sure, but also not at all on the same level of genius craftsmanship and mastery as the original.
So Aventus stays the royal, regal, immortal and ancient mountain of a GOAT, the time tested and still incredibly relevant masterpiece it always was, in a sea of more or less forgettable, faceless and characterless imitations which always strife, but never succeed.
God bless.
Oh and also the packaging and the bottle feel more luxorious and regal to me than all my other perfumes. Even though the packaging material is flimsy and kinda weak. But man the bottle and atomizer are awesome.
Anyway back to the perfume. I really like the smell. It's fresh, sophisticated, layered, smells like quality and has aura. It's kind of a dumb reach but in a very classy, luxurious way.
I love that it's kind of a freshy, a bit fougere, bit blue, but has some depth and heft to it because of the Birch / smokey base. A fresh, a bit fruity and citrusy, kinda mossy / ambergris masterpiece. For me it's layered and complex especially for such a scent profile. And of course the famous pineapple note is truly amazing. All in all a masterpiece, a very successful scent and I love it.
Performance wise my batch is quite alright (if you spray enough) and I am pretty sure it'll get better with maceration.
I used like 10 sprays (yeah maybe a lot considering the excellent creed atomizers which spray like a hose) and had very good projection for maybe like 1-2 hours. It probably became an intimate / skin scent 1-2 hours after that and then it remained a lingering skin scent. Right now around 10 hours later it's still a noticable skin scent on my clothes (I always spray on clothes) which is good enough for me and an average performance in my book. Again as I said I'm pretty sure that'll get still a bit better after some months and years of maceration. All in all I'm okay with the performance.
Regarding the dupes I usually really don't like them and even more so don't respect them.
Club de Nuit Intense Man Limited Edition was okay smell wise after the harsh opening and probably in the air it's not much of a difference and maybe it even gets more compliments because it might have stronger performance. But yeah it's really not the real deal and cannot compare quality or smell wise up close. If that's important to you is up to you. For me it is as I love the quality and the impeccable artistic craftsmanship and mastery of the originals.
Hacivat probably Aventus inspired but quite different actually and also very good in it's own right. But for me not the same DNA as Aventus.
Blockade is a bit like a mockery of the genius of Aventus to me. Yeah it's smells good, it has performance. Yeah it's not a clone but somehow feels like a copy cat. It's kinda trying hard to be cool, trying hard to please, trying hard to chase a hype which is a bit pathetic. Aventus defined, impacted, changed. And Blockade just follows, trying to be edgy and cool and soon enough will be completely forgotten, like all fads.
Cedrat Boise and Intense Cedrat Boise I can respect as they are quite intriguing and good perfumes which kinda do their own thing (if still heavily Aventus inspired). But ultimately they have less quality, they are less of a masterpiece.
Explorer and Eros Energy know how to please, especially for their price. And for what they are, being designer mass pleasing, mass produced products, they are very good. But ultimately they are not Aventus, not at all.
Aventus Cologne and Absolu Aventus are good. But the Mandarine Orange of the cologne did not fit very well into the composition for me, making it also a less inspired copy of the original masterpiece. The absolu is half kind of a different beast altogether and half kind of a shameful imitation of Sauvage Elixir. It is quite an amazing perfume to be sure, but also not at all on the same level of genius craftsmanship and mastery as the original.
So Aventus stays the royal, regal, immortal and ancient mountain of a GOAT, the time tested and still incredibly relevant masterpiece it always was, in a sea of more or less forgettable, faceless and characterless imitations which always strife, but never succeed.
God bless.